{"id":110,"date":"2016-09-09T15:26:27","date_gmt":"2016-09-09T15:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artist.upwork\/?page_id=110"},"modified":"2016-12-28T19:36:47","modified_gmt":"2016-12-28T19:36:47","slug":"mordechai-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/impermanentdisplay.danalevy.net\/en_US\/mordechai-lebanon\/","title":{"rendered":"Mordechai Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jerusalem Landscape; Oil on Canvas, 65&#215;52 cm<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Mordechai \u00a0Lebanon<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Mordechai \u00a0Lebanon was born under the name Mordechai Weiss, in a small village near Nagyvarad, Transylvania (today Oradea, Romania). His first painting teacher was his older brother. In 1921 he immigrated to Palestine and joined the Histadrut Organization. He managed to study for a few months at\u00a0the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, but soon he quit and began working as a farmer and a builder. Between 1925-1927 he moved to Tel Aviv and studied painting with Itzhack Frankel. Finally, he resigned from his other occupations and devoted himself solely to the art of painting. He joined the art group \u201cMesed\u201d and participated in their exhibitions. In 1938 he moved to Jerusalem, and in 1963 he opened an atelier in Safed. Lebanon participated in numerous group and solo- exhibitions \u00a0in Israel and worldwide; he was twice the winner of Dizengoff award \u2013 in 1940 and in 1961.<\/p>\n<p>He passed away in Jerusalem in 1968.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jerusalem Landscape; Oil on Canvas, 65&#215;52 cm Mordechai \u00a0Lebanon Mordechai \u00a0Lebanon was born under the name Mordechai Weiss, in a small village near Nagyvarad, Transylvania (today Oradea, Romania). His first painting teacher was his older brother. In 1921 he immigrated to Palestine and joined the Histadrut Organization. He managed to study for a few months [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":18,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"view.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-110","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/impermanentdisplay.danalevy.net\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/impermanentdisplay.danalevy.net\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/impermanentdisplay.danalevy.net\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/impermanentdisplay.danalevy.net\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/impermanentdisplay.danalevy.net\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/impermanentdisplay.danalevy.net\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1289,"href":"http:\/\/impermanentdisplay.danalevy.net\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/110\/revisions\/1289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/impermanentdisplay.danalevy.net\/en_US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}